OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 71 



In the firft courfe, if clover was fowed over the 

 wheat, and came in inftead of 3. oats, the courfe would 

 be excellent, as the clover might be fucceeded by any 

 crop of grain ; or if peas were to form the third, the 

 effeft would be equal. The marling courfe might be 

 much improved alfo, by fowing clover with the fecond 

 barley crop. One obfervation, however, muft be made 

 f efpecYmg marie, that it has fo great an effect in ame- 

 liorating the foil, to which it is congenial, that a lefs 

 regular rotation may be admitted for fome years after it 

 is introduced ; the fame obfervatiotl will apply to lime, 

 but the fame objection lies againft both, that they leave 

 the ground in a worfe ftate than they found it, when 

 followed too far. Many farmers, I underftand, have 

 gone fo far as to take ten or even twice that number 

 of crops, upon the ftrength of marling ; but they 

 begin now to be fenfible of the impropriety of this 

 mode. Amongft many different courfes of crops, I 

 noted the following, which will fhew, that in Lecale 

 there is more fyftem than in the other parts of the 

 county ; and this advantage I believe is entirely owing 

 to the general ufe of clover ; which, though it is not 

 (b often as it fhould be in its right place, is invariably 

 had recourfe to in the end, as will appear by what 

 follows. 



LEA. 



